Table of Contents

Part 1 Colonial Encounters; Chapter 1 The Magistrate, J. M. Coetzee; Chapter 2 The Coming of the Christ-Child, Bessie Head; Chapter 3 The Sacrificial Egg, Chinua Achebe; Chapter 4 From The Matriarch, Witi Ihimaera; Chapter 5 The Woman at the Store, Katherine Mansfield; Chapter 6 The Drover’s Wife, Henry Lawson; Chapter 7 A Boer Wedding, Olive Schreiner; Chapter 8 A Matter of Taste, Alex La Guma; Chapter 9 The Gold Watch, Mulk Raj Anand; Chapter 10 A Letter from Home, Doris Lessing; Chapter 11 The Charlottetown Banquet, Robertson Davies; Chapter 12 A Drink in the Passage, Alan Paton; Part 2 Postcolonial Encounters; Chapter 13 “Do You Love Me?”, Peter Carey; Chapter 14 The Testimony of Kîhaahu wa Gatheeca, Ngugi wa Thiong’o; Chapter 15 The Perfume Sea, Margaret Laurence; Chapter 16 Chloe of the Dancing Bears, Thea Astley; Chapter 17 An Experience of India, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Chapter 18 A Horse and Two Goats, R. K. Narayan; Chapter 19 The Hills, Patricia Grace; Chapter 20 From The Famished Road, Ben Okri; Chapter 21 Ranna’s Story, Bapsi Sidhwa; Chapter 22 Prelude: An Inheritance, V. S. Naipaul; Part 3 Immigrant Encounters; Chapter 23 Swimming Lessons, Rohinton Mistry; Chapter 24 Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Chapter 25 Buried Lives, Bharati Mukherjee; Chapter 26 The Ministry’s Visiting Day, Buchi Emecheta; Chapter 27 Joebell and America, Earl Lovelace; Chapter 28 My Son the Fanatic, Hanif Kureishi; Chapter 29 The Angel Azraeel, Salman Rushdie; Part 4 Personal Encounters; Chapter 30 Down at the Dump, Patrick White; Chapter 31 The Sun in Winter, David Malouf; Chapter 32 Scarlet Ibis, Margaret Atwood; Chapter 33 Pigeons at Daybreak, Anita Desai; Chapter 34 The Triumph of Poetry, Janet Frame; Chapter 35 Some are Born to Sweet Delight, Nadine Gordimer;

About the Author

Robert L. Ross